\nThe market asking, “Will Donald Trump be impeached by year-end 2019?” has Yes shares trading at just 17 cents. But that’s up three cents from last week. The highest the market’s hit over the last 90 days came in May when Yes shares were trading at 31 cents.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
The main issue with Mueller’s testimony will be deciding whether the president should be charged with obstruction.<\/p>\n
“The dam is holding back the floodwaters,” said Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Virginia). “But we are one explosive testimony, one new consequential outrage, from that dam being breached.”<\/p>\n
Trump said this week of the Democrats, “They’re wasting their time.”<\/p>\n
What’s Impeachment?<\/b><\/h2>\n
In the US, impeachment of the president isn’t the formal removal of the chief executive. Instead, it’s simply the act of Congress bringing charges against the commander-in-chief on allegations of “treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.”<\/p>\n
Impeachment has only occurred three times in US history \u2013 Andrew Johnson in 1868, Bill Clinton in 1998, and Richard Nixon in 1974.<\/p>\n
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Impeachment begins with a simple majority in the US House of Representatives. If that occurs, the proceedings move to the Senate where the chief justice of the Supreme Court oversees a trial. House members serve as the prosecutors, and the president brings his own attorneys for defense. The Senate acts as the jury.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
If two-thirds of the Senate votes guilty, the president is removed and the vice president becomes the president of the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
President Donald Trump is weighing in on calls for his removal from office, but the 45th commander-in-chief says there’s little support among the general public for his ousting. Former special counsel Robert Mueller will testify tomorrow before the House Intelligence and Judiciary committees regarding the president’s alleged efforts to curtail or shut down his probe […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":109956,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19853,61],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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